Dear Sugars presents: "The Midnight Rebellion," a new adventure fiction podcast

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Dear, Steve Almond, Society & Culture, Wbur, Cheryl Strayed, Sugar, Boston, Advice

4.5 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

From the WBUR Podcasts team, here's a new kind of story — one that's all about choices and consequences. The Midnight Rebellion is a pick-your-own-path podcast set 100 years in the future, where the stakes are nothing less than the planet itself. It's fiction rooted in real science, built for the kids in your life (ages 7 and up) — and the whole family. Because if Dear Sugars taught us anything, it's that the choices we make shape our futures.

This is Chapter 1 of The Midnight Rebellion. Choose wisely.

And if you liked what you heard, listen to the rest and follow The Midnight Rebellion wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:53.5	Hey, Sugar Fans. This is Amory Siebertsin, producer emeritus of Dear Sugars.
0:58.9	Now, you know very, very well as a Dear Sugar's listener that life is all about choices
1:04.3	and what we choose inevitably shapes our futures.
1:09.8	So I'm here to tell you about a new WBUR podcast that's also
1:13.3	about choices. It's sort of a sibling of Deer Sugars, if you will, a younger sibling, because this
1:20.2	show is for the kids in your life. And it's a Pick Your Own Path podcast. It takes place
1:27.3	a hundred years in the future. And it's all Pick Your Own Path podcast. It takes place 100 years in the future.
1:29.3	And it's all about the consequences of climate change.
1:33.5	It's called The Midnight Rebellion.
1:36.5	And it's unlike anything that I have ever heard before.
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